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[eddiememphis]

Vortex 4-12X44

[Hummer]

Nice rifle setup!

[arbol]

This is the nuclear solution to an annoying problem with wind on camping trips:



By which I meant the tent, not camping in my living room.


Went camping last weekend with the scouts up to Carter Lake. We arrived late Friday night, and had to take a site without tree cover. We got Wyoming level winds which were killing tents left and right. My own beloved Big Agnes Copper Spur didn't take damage, but the poles kept buckling in the nastiest wind gusts. Winds kept changing direction as well, so I couldn't really orient it or guy it into the wind. The other issue is that the winds were strong enough to blow the snow under the rain fly and through the mesh walls, so I woke up to the inside of my tent looking like a powdered donut.

These issues are infrequent, but they have similarly bit me in the rear during camping excursions to Pawnee and Great Sand Dunes, both of which blew fine grit right through the mesh walls of the Copper Spur. This trip was the last straw though. I am a middle aged man with disposable income and an internet connection, so I solved it in the appropriate manner; googling 'expedition tent for high wind and grit'. Which was a fascinating excursion down the rabbit hole of tents for polar expeditions and summiting K2 and Ranier. But of the options I could actually attain at the local REI with the 20% coupon, that left the Trango 3.

11 pounds, 32 possible stake points, solid walls and doors. This is complete, unnecessary overkill. And I love it. Will probably be used four times a year, max, and definitely not for any hike-in trips. But when the others are pouring grit out of their sleeping bags and trying to patch poles with gorilla tape and prayer, I will be sitting in dry, dust and snow-free comfort in my arctic rated tent.

Could you not find 11 lbs of rocks on site?

-John

[JohnnyEgo]

I probably could have, but short of using them to build a rock wall to keep the wind from blowing in the poles and pushing powder through the mesh body, I doubt it would have helped. I didn't have a problem with the tent blowing away; I had a problem with it caving in.

[bradbn4]

Well; more of my money went overseas...

The fine print on this item is I ordered the upgrade parts for my 3s+ not the full kit.
I wish I knew about this last week before I ordered some replacement parts for my old I3, Mk 3.

They have not posted the part STL files yet; so I am not sure how long the print jobs will take.

[arbol]

All of you 3D Printers, need to find clay.

[O2HeN2]

Yhea, I'll probably upgrade my Mk3S+ to a 4, but I'll wait to order until they start shipping the upgrades.

...especially after the XL slipped close to 1.5 years from the time they started accepting orders...

O2

[Hummer]

This latest purchase wasnt cool like all of the things you guys post. It is very needed and VERY expensive. This is what $20,000 worth of seed in bags looks like. 5500# worth. The Ram has no problem with it. 400 acres worth of various grasses. It will be in the neighborhood of $12-16,000 to plant it (with grass drill rental) I already spent about $12,000 spraying out the weeds. All of this and ZERO guarantee it will even come up. Sucks.

That's some real work there, Hbar. You have my admiration. Do you have irrigation?

I need a tracked Bobcat like that. Thinking of selling the John Deere and all.

Here's the last cutting from my mini-farm outside Palisade.

[bradbn4]

Yhea, I'll probably upgrade my Mk3S+ to a 4, but I'll wait to order until they start shipping the upgrades.

...especially after the XL slipped close to 1.5 years from the time they started accepting orders...

O2

You are not wrong in the least - tho they did indicate that there was 200 pre-built Mark IV ready to ship.
Which does not mean that they will build #201 anytime soon. Only good news is the tech behind the new machine is based on the XL hardware.
Not 100% on the hardware; so your waiting might be a wise move.

There are a few upgrade paths 3.5, 3.9, and 4.0 - pending on how close you want to upgrade your machine to the new system.
The upgrade is not 100% - but then they have not listed the STL files for the upgrade, nor what hardware included in each upgrade path.

If the delay in getting an XL was not as long as it is, I would have done a minor upgrade on my existing hardware and picked up the new XL printer.

Currently at least the 1 print head XL is being unboxed.

The following should be arriving soon...I was going to use the hardware to upgrade my current printer-but I might shift the hardware to the bare MK III instead.

[HBARleatherneck]

Hummer,
No irrigation. We did actually have winter this year. That may help a little. I would love to have your beautiful fields. That is fantastic. We have 640. 400 acres of it was wheat for decades(before us). Now it's going back to grass. I'm trying to get an out of area owner to sell me his 320 next door.